It is not appropriate to delay death sentence: Can’t we create a system in which after it confirms a death sentence the state should confirm whether any clemency application of the accused was pending or not. If not, the state should approach the sessions court for the issuance of if a death warrant, observes the supreme court:

Supreme Court of India has expressed grave concern over the delay in executing a man condemned to death by the court even after the rejection of his clemency plea.

The Supreme Court said this following a case of delay in the execution of a man, as the Bombay High Court had extended his jail term to thirty-five years.

After this, the Maharashtra government went to the Supreme Court against the Bombay High Court’s decision.

The three-judge bench, consisting of Justice Abhay Oka, Justice Ahsanuddin Amanullah, and Justice Augustine George Masih, made this comment.

A BPO working woman was gang-raped and murdered in Pune in 2007.

The courts sent two accused to the gallows.

Later, the Supreme Court ratified the death sentence in 2015.

Yet their hanging was delayed by nine years.

Meanwhile, the accused again approached the high court which converted their punishment to imprisonment for thirty-five years.

The Supreme Court observed whether it could convert this decision into a death sentence again.